"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love." - Aristotle

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov

"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." - Edmund Burke, speech (1792)

"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it." - Colette, Cheri

"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid." - William Faulkner

"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear." - Thomas Fuller, M. D., Gnomologia

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

"When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"To him who is afraid everything rustles." - Sophocles, Acrisius

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." - NICCOL MACHIAVELLI, The Prince

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy."
- Helvetius

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)

"Question with boldness even the existance of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfold fear." - Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)

"Your silence will not protect you." - Lourde, Audre

"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear thate will make one." - Maxwell, John

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - VanDyke, Henry